National Zoo Euthanizes Rare Sulawesi Macaque
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The National Zoo said it had to euthanize a monkey of a critically endangered species.
A 35-year-old female -- elderly in monkey years -- had been suffering from a spinal condition and was not responding to treatment, zoo officials said. Veterinarians agreed the primate’s quality of life had deteriorated.
The Sulawesi macaque was part of what the zoo says is a critically endangered species, native to the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
Fewer than 5,000 are believed to exist in the wild, with about 100 more in zoos.
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